Pipe cleaners, again and again....

Love it! So many different thing we can make with pipe cleaners!

Now - birds for bird curriculum.The first one is chicken. They making fun of me "Did you make a duck for Easter?" Ok, next week I will see your birds my dear students! Today I am looking for different bird's appearance which we will make with my children. Make it easy - small ball with pencil, big ball on the finger, two googly eyes, two pieces orange pipe cleaners for legs( that is probably why everyone call my chicken "duck") and piece red pipe cleaner for beak! Ta-da!

Look for other birds here

It is just a museum of birds!!

Pipe cleaners flowers

Love it! Today outside is -7*C but in our classroom - SPRING!, bright, beautiful Spring with flowers...after 1 hour of work green pipe cleaners finished... we use brown, beige... any! Spring is bringing all bright colours! Children who were more experienced in work with pipe cleaners helped others... I make a quick guide how to band pipe cleaner for all parts of flowers...Bring Spring in your room!

 

You will need pipe cleaners (a LOT!)

Piece of green paper

Glue gun or white glue

 

This is our quick tutorial.

More Spring activities here

PIPE CLEANER PEOPLE

My friends-teachers many times asked me to make a post about pipe cleaner people. We go back again and again with it and now I download a few pictures with our people.

This is my first ugly skier, but but most lovely))

After that first try we made a hundreds of people in different ways and find the easier way to make that folk!

Jorden's girl

Lana's dreamer

Erika's skater

Abby's snowboarder

After we got an idea that we also can make an animals!

Aeriel made a reindeer with pink scarf 

Jake made a reindeer with white and brown tail

And also some other animals:

Now. on March break I decided to continue with pipe cleaners: so many benefits for children and so much fun!

SO, PIPE CLEANERS! WOO-HOO! I love this material!

Winter village in progress/Работа над проектом"Зимняя деревня"

Ok! Now our houses change an appearance! And than farer couple children improve their houses, than more children want to make their own! We decided to discuss with children their choices: why they choose this or that building. But today we just pick up boxes and cut, cut cut them...  

                                                     


Tree with squirl , future "Sabrina's restorant"

Discussion about doors and windows.

 How to make a snow - children's guessing.

 

That how our village looks now, but usually on Friday children pick up their works, so up to Friday we should finish a couple houses!
We finished our project at the middle of April. The best part was to organize our houses on the landscape.
Children enjoyed doing that work!
They discussed who going to live in our village and they enjoyed making people and animals for it.
This is short photo stream of our project:

Winter village project

This project started before Christmas and continued for over four months. During this project children learned many new and improved their existing skills. We covered all areas of the children's development including Music, Math and Writing.

Also, by working together children improved their social skills, they learned how to work on their own and share their knowledge and help their friends. During those months children made great growth of their personal, social and cognitive skills. They still did not lose interest to work on this project.

   We continue connect some of our not finished activity to other projects and just let them play with Winter Village.

After Art Show at the end of the school year we are going to cut landscape in pieces and every child will take home his or her own "land with the house and surroundings".